Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.